Caleb Strong

Caleb Strong (9 January 1745-7 November 1819) was a US Senator from Massachusetts from 4 March 1789 to 1 June 1796 (preceding Theodore Sedgwick) and Governor of Massachusetts from 30 May 1800 to 29 May 1807 (preceding James Sullivan) and from 4 March 1812 to 30 May 1816 (succeeding Elbridge Gerry and preceding John Brooks.

Biography
Caleb Strong was born in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1745, and he became a lawyer in 1772. He was elected to the Provincial Congress in 1774, and he helped to draft the state's constitution in 1780. From 1780 to 1789, he served in the State Senate, and, from 1789 to 1796, he was one of his state's inaugural senators. He resigned in 1796 and returned to private life, but he later served as Governor from 1800 to 1807 and from 1812 to 1816. Strong opposed the War of 1812, and he left office in 1816 and died in 1819.